PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

I went through a Bachelor of Creative Arts, and then through Film School, all looking for bigger and better art forms. Painting or art I could work on everyday, but I felt it wasn’t broad enough. These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.” The day to day.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 2, 2023

When I write a design document, I usually try to address the following: High level goal - What is this feature/system/puzzle/etc. Engineering for A, VFX for B, animations for C, environments for D, and so on. supposed to do? What kind of experience do I want the player to have?

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I went through a Bachelor of Creative Arts, and then through Film School, all looking for bigger and better art forms. Painting or art I could work on everyday, but I felt it wasn’t broad enough. These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.” The day to day.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 16, 2022

Award-winning educational gaming website offers 1000+ learning activities for kids in grades K to 5, both educational and interactive. The website covers math, social studies, language and arts, typing, science, creativity, and logic. The game supports young minds to create new skills more efficiently while promoting fun.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Developing a rich and immersive game world is a complicated and multi-disciplinary process. To build a truly immersive gaming environment, a team of designers, developers, artists and programmers employ a combination of psychology, art and technology into video games that challenge and capture players, resulting in satisfying gameplay.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Candace Thomas (Game Designer) , a veteran designer with vast experience in the MMO genre, having worked at World of Warcraft , the canceled Lord of the Rings MMO by Amazon Studios, and more recently at upcoming Riot’s MMO (wait, is this bad news for the LoL MMO!? I won’t forgive you for that, Supercell!)

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. The adorable characters, detailed worldbuilding, and an animation style that is both refreshing and polished made it easy for players to immerse themselves in the world of Cookie Run and hard to leave. Evolution of Cookie Run.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Elaborated below: 1) Who will play the game? Just try to picture who is going to play the game. A mainstream audience, e.g.: an RPG, FPS or strategy game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2020

So without further ado… First, a quick overview of the RPG genre Role Playing Games (RPGs) have generated nearly $3Bn in in-app purchase revenues year-to-date in the Western markets. This makes RPGs the third largest genre on mobile after Strategy ($5.4Bn) and Puzzle ($4.5Bn) games. Installs are supporting the story.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Video games today are far more immersive than ever, and that isn’t simply because consoles and PCs have gotten more powerful. A lot of the beauty and appeal in modern games comes down to a less quantifiable factor: Atmosphere. When we talk about a game’s ‘atmosphere’, we don’t mean things like virtual clouds.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

I had worked at Lucasfilm for 8 years and learned a lot, not just about game design and programming, but also marketing, PR, and production and I felt like I needed to try it all for myself. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. I floated it by Lucasfilm Games and they weren't interested.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 19, 2021

Small Giant did it with Puzzle and Empires. RPG games on mobile in the West reached new heights during the lockdowns. And the Role-Playing Games (RPGs) kept up with the growth generating $3.3Bn year-to-date with a growth of 29% YoY. The other looks like an RPG game from the Heroes Charge era.

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iHobo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In 2023, the game I'm most proud of in my long and distinguished career as a game designer will be twenty years old. Why is this game so beloved? Before I talk about the ghosts, I need to start with where this game began. But I was wrong - we had one more game together.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This, in fact, was what my signature design style was. Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling. Crafting in other games was mostly one-off stuff tied to quests, or really simple magic item creation. It’s stuff that single-player game designers know how to do. And crafting!

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 27, 2022

I've been trying to get good at game design for almost 30 years. It's Your Game. Of course, a game this big and full of so much mischief has room to break its own rules. The difference between craft and art is learning when the rules should be broken. These games love to troll you. I mean, seriously.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank , I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog. No point in having to solve the same puzzle over and over. Never be afraid to edit you game down if it needs it.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters.

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